Looking for Mabel Normand

Do you think that this fad will come back?  What way would the faces look:  up or down?  I was talking to my pre-teen granddaughter about the butterfly on the ankle and laughingly told her about the fad of putting rouge on the knees when the skirts got short during the flapper era. And was telling her about the expression “bees’ knees” and then I found this!  I think the “Plantation” was the Roscoe Arbuckle café before it was Roscoe’s cafe.

July 26, 1925

Hollywood Note by Russell J. Birdwell

HOLLYWOOD STYLE NOTE

(For Women Only.)

A painting of a lover’s face on the bare knee of the woman is the rage here.  Pauline Garon introduced the style at the Plantation the other eve.  Her silken skirt, tipping her knees, revealed the design of a man’s face on her nether extremity.  As she danced the man’s face took on grotesque contortions, much to the amusement of the gazing crowd.

So no butterfly on the ankle or little bee on the back of the knee, just a Face looking down!